Meeting Nikki Silva a year ago at Podcast Movement was one of the highlights of my life. The Kitchen Sisters are not only radio and podcast pioneers, they're beautiful artists who live their art as much as produce it. That last part sort of describes George Foreman too. This episode focuses on his (in)famous grill. Subscribe in iTunes here.

You know my love of Australian podcasts by now. These folks help me stay current with pop culture while avoiding sooooo many terrible movies. Thus one is one I was really looking forward to but the reviews turned me off it. Now that I've listened to this, I don't have to see it until I can suffer in peace at home. Subscribe in iTunes here.

I was honored to speak at PMx as part of Podcast Movement 2016 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago about my journey towards independence and how narrating audiobooks with ACX.com is one simple method many if not all podcasters can adopt. Thanks to Ramona Rice, host of The Sports Gal Pal podcast and Community Manager for Podcast Websites, for the introduction. Visit http://joelsharpton.com/pmx/ to download my Tips and Tricks, see my gear recommendations lists and sign up for ACX.com yourself.

I love this show so much. Jason Snell and John Siracusa cohost this ongoing exploration of the true nature of robotics. My eldest child just went through Lego Robotics camp and this episode blew his mind. Subscribe in iTunes here.

Kevin Smith normally anchors this podcast focusing on Batman and the wider comics world, but he's on vacation this episode as cohost Marc Bernardin chats with Lexi Alexander, the director of Punisher: War Zone about her history in film and with Frank Castle directly. Subscribe in iTunes here.

The MacElroy brothers (Justin, Travis and Griffin) make me laugh every week. They answer emails from listeners and Yahoo Answers questions too, applying their own hilarious "homespun" advice. This episode was especially chuckleworthy. Subscribe in iTunes here.

John Siracusa and Merlin Mann "figure each other out" one podcast episode at a time. This week they discussed "repping stuff" and whether we do that for ourselves or each other. Subscribe in iTunes here.

Tracis Macelroy and Brent Black host a weekly chat about everything that's "trending" on the internet. This week they discuss the Tony's and reactions to the Orlando Mass Shooting. I read a lot of news every week, and I generally DON'T want to hear about the headlines too. These guys do a great job of informing and entertaining, while they work out their own feelings about things on the air. Subscribe in iTunes here.

Invisiblia is back! Season One was one of my favorite NPR productions. Now in episode one of season two, Alix Spiegel and new cohost Hannah Rosen discuss social norms. I'm so glad this show is back! Subscribe in iTunes here.

Eric Molinsky hosts this biweekly podcast about stories and storytelling. In this episode he talks to Tom Fontana about Tommy Westphall and the biggest "shared universe" in pop culture. This episode is from January but I just discovered the show and it's my new favorite. Subscribe in iTunes here.

Four years ago this month, I talked my buddy Josh into walking into the studio and recording our first podcast. We called it Two Guys, One Podcast, and it was pretty ridiculous. We carried on for over two years and 100 episodes goofing off, hanging out and recording it all.

Somewhere along the way, we began discussing other podcasts that we had listened to before we started recording our show. By March of 2014, it was clear that those discussions would be a better show than the one we were doing every week.

We created Pod on Pod to help people find their next favorite podcast. We originally partnered with the guys at TeamProCreate.com and launched our first three episodes on May 4th, 2014.

Since then, we've reviewed more than 100 different podcasts, and have published 98 episodes (episode 99 is recording on Friday). We've let that original show podfade (it lives on YouTube) and switched partners from ProCreate to BlogTalkRadio.

It's been a tremendous two years, and I'd first and foremost like to thank each and every one of our listeners. You've been amazing co-conspirators as we set about listening to every podcast in the known universe, and weeding out the good ones. Your feedback, reviews, discussion (through email and our Facebook group) has all been amazing, and I hope it never ends.

Secondly, I'd like to thank my wife and kids. Kelly especially, puts things on hold, holds down the fort and does without herself so that I have time to pursue this passion. She and Josh's wife, Rachel, are our two unheard Cohosts, without whom it would be impossible for our show to exist or continue.

Third and finally, I want to thank my long-suffering and hard-working partner, Josh. He's been a sounding board and a reality check, a negotiating bulldog and a politicking velvet hand. He's also got impeccable taste (except on those things that he disagrees with me about) and an unbelievably direct way of imparting those taste decisions. He is the Siskel to my Ebert, the Jay to my Bob, the Bert to my Ernie, and the day he decides he doesn't want to listen anymore, is the day this show dies.

But thankfully, that day ain't today. So, if you will, raise a glass to my compadre who is absent from the Internet in all but voice, and plug in your own personal favorite episode of Always Listening (or the classic, Pod on Pod) just for me and Josh.

This week on my Podcast review show, Always Listening, I responded to some listener feedback by discussing the gear, software and processes we use to create our podcast. If that sounds like your type of thing, check the audio out right here:

Joel has loved Netflix for a long, long time. Hear him discuss his love affair with the little red envelope and what Netflix means today. Also, a personal announcement! and Teaser for upcoming episodes.

In case you missed some of my many auditory appearances this week, here's a roundup.

I was a guest on the Trivial Warfare show, taking on Jonathan Oakes head to head. It's a great trivia show and while I don't want to spoil it, I held my own.

On Always Listening, we reviewed Trivial Warfare this week too! Josh and I both enjoyed meeting Jonathan at Podcast Movement this year and couldn't wait to share his show with you.

And finally, I was joined by a couple of my favorite people on What Makes Me Weird? to discuss the latest Avengers movie and a few other topics of interest to Son #1 and Deuce. Whether you like Comic Book movies or not, I'd check this one out, as its two of the cutest movie reviewers you'll ever hear.

It's hard for me to even begin to explain my love for podcasting. If I had never had a show, even if I was never able to launch my own in the future, podcasting would still would be the source of thousands upon thousands of hours of entertainment and education for me personally. The joy of having my own life recorded and preserved through the medium has taken it to an even higher level.

Once upon a time, I had a professor (one I'll interview live on July 30th) tell me you had to do something twice to be able to say you are that thing. You're a carpenter? Only if you've built two houses. You get the idea.

Well, as of last Thursday, I'm a live podcaster. Having now done it twice. This time, Paul Crook (who I've known for 10 years this summer), took the chair to talk about his love for Alabama sports, the stage and how he and his wife juggle two Creative careers and four kids.

Find more reviews, podcasts and a welcoming collaborative community of artists by visiting TeamProCreate.com

Almost a month ago, I started searching for other podcasts produced in my area. One of the first ones I was pointed to was The 318 Now Podcast with Josh Tolleson. This week, he had me on the show. Check it out here:

Andrei Constantinescu has been a friend since college. He's first generation immigrant, a casting agent based out of Dallas, TX, and one of the sweetest, most genuine people you'll ever meet.

A couple of years ago, we had him on as a guest on our podcast, Two Guys, One Podcast. The show is no longer produced, and it's a lot rougher around the edges than what I put out these days, but this is a conversation too good to lose.

*Explicit Language Warning* but if the kids aren't in the car, this one is definitely something you should listen to.

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David Wylie is one of my favorite parts of my college career, and thankfully, we've maintained our friendship since. He was an excellent professor, though I was a poor student, and a talented and experienced director, though I was a weak and over-confident performer.

While he's retired to the hills of Arkansas for a much deserved respite from his long and illustrious career, I still like to bother him from time to time for some musical chat. This week, we discuss the only fitting film for the Fourth, 1776.

For a long time, the reason was that I didn't have a co-host. It's awfully hard to jump off into the ether if you're the only one jumping. Then I found the Other Guy. He's genuinely funny, quick witted, good-natured and just asshole enough to think he deserves to have other people listen to him talk about nonsense. We'd been friends for a while, and more than once I'd said I wish we were recording our conversations for other people to enjoy or at least for us to remember later. Then one day I sent him a text:

One Guy: We should record a podcast. We'll call it "Two Guys, One Podcast." and we'll intro it like this. 'I'm one guy', 'I'm the other', 'and this is the podcast.'

Other Guy: Ok then.

It was four days before we did record, and in that time, we had discussed a few ideas for things to talk about on the show, but mostly, we opened the mic and talked to each other, just like we did in our living rooms. I was so excited about that first show I edited it that night, then shared it with the Other Guy, his wife and Honeybun.

They liked it, surprisingly. I had such a good time with the whole thing, I talked Other Guy into recording a second episode the next day and from there, we were off and running. By the fourth episode we'd added a theme song from Professor Shyguy (I hate you, Brandt Cooley), the featured outro song, and started using bits from the show as our "intro". We had become a show. Other Guy was fully on board by this time too. He started pitching segments or bits, doing research on his own and sending me link after link of funny news stories to discuss. "Two Guys, One Podcast." was a real thing.

We stuck with a "home-rolled" podcast for the first nine weeks, using a combination of Dropbox, Feedburner and Tumblr to host and syndicate, but it was pretty complicated for me, and not nearly as user-friendly as we wanted to be. There are lots of podcast listeners, but we had lots of potential interest from people who'd never heard a podcast before. We needed to make it easy for it to be any good to people.

That's when I found Libsyn. They were (unbeknownst to me) the premier podcast hosting service in the world, with some of the most popular and listened-to shows on the web using their services. Libsyn is the service that Kevin Smith and Marc Maron and Adam Carolla and everyone else uses. Of course my show needed to be there too (humility is a great trait, but it doesn't help get Big Things started)!

It's a small financial commitment for us every month, one that is very unlikely to be recouped in the near term by advertisement or affiliate sales (buy something from Amazon through our links, won't you?). But the cost is nothing when considering the good times Other Guy and I (and our growing cast of characters) have spent together over the last year in that studio. The cost is nothing when considering how much fun it'll be to have this window into my younger days when I'm old and grey. The cost is nothing when considering that I get to share my friendship and our good times with the world.

It's a pretty cheap hobby to start with, but it's given me more than my money's worth in positive life experiences already. For those of you that are already Poddies, thank you. If you think a little funny is exactly what your ear has needed, please feel free to insert this into it.

If you keep listening, we'll keep recording. Well, truthfully, we'll probably record whether you listen or not. It'll just be more fun if you're along for the ride. It's been exactly a year today since that first episode was released into the public. We're celebrating our birthday/anniversary whatever with a "Best of" episode to be released Wednesday at noon. I'll add the link here once it's up.

We've learned a lot in this last year. I can't wait to see where we are a year from now, when I'm putting the finishing touches on the "Best of Season 2"!

There's this girl I've been sweet on for a while now. Maybe you've read about her before?It took me a long while to realize exactly what I had in my life with Beautiful. I tried, for a long time, to chase her off. But she stuck with me through thick and thin and with enough time, I realized she was the love of my life. Once that came through, I had to make her my wife.

Before we could do that, she wanted to go where no other girlfriend have ever been with me...the recording studio.

I have a weekly comedy podcast with my best buddy called, Two Guys, One Podcast. This week, I sent my cohost packing and spent the evening with the woman I'm gonna spend the rest of my life with.

I'll give you some disclaimers. Our show is generally explicit. We use foul language and make dirty jokes and that's not for everyone, I understand. Honeybun and I don't exactly put any sailors to shame, but we do use a few "dirty" words and talk openly and honestly about our relationship. Its ups, its downs and its surprising present location.

I'm biased, of course, but I don't think I'm blowing smoke when I say it's a funny, engaging, interesting glimpse into just what its title suggests, "A Modern American Love Story"

So, for your approval and consideration, your entertainment and edification, but mostly because I'm madly in love with this woman and I want everyone to know about it

It's a bit of a spoiler, but I know the language will put some of you off listening, so here's a little incentive. Starting at about the 1 hour mark, we tell the story of our proposal, and then announce a surprise. Check that out (with VERY few dirty words) if you just want the big story without all the muss!

For every one that was a part of our meeting, dating, engagement or the WEDDING this weekend (that's the surprise in the podcast, you spoil-sport) a big huge 'Thank you!' from One Guy and Honeybun, Handsome and Beautiful, Joel and Kelly.